Mungo Jerry - The Dawn Albums Collection (5 CD, 2017/FLAC)

 

Mungo Jerry - Mungo Jerry 1970 

Mungo Jerry - Electronically Tested 1971 

Mungo Jerry - You Don't Have To Be In The Army 1971

Mungo Jerry - Boot Power 1972 

Mungo Jerry - Long Legged Woman 1974 

 

Blind Boy Fuller - Complete Recorded Works Vol. 1-6 (1935-1940) [6 CD, 1992/FLAC]

 

Blind Boy Fuller (born Fulton Allen) (July 10, 1907 - February 13, 1941) was an American blues guitarist and vocalist. He was one of the most popular of the recorded Piedmont blues artists with rural Black Americans, a group that also included Blind Blake, Josh White, and Buddy Moss.

Vol. 1

"The finest collection ever of blues and ragtime. Fuller is here both solo and with Gary Davis, Sonny Terry, and Bull City Red. This is Piedmont blues at its best (1935-1936), a must for anyone interested in down-home blues."-- AMG review by Barry Lee Pearson

Vol. 2

"The second volume in Document's chronological overview of Blind Boy Fuller's life and music contains some of his most popular recordings, including the 1936 sessions which yielded both "Truckin' My Blues Away" (an update of Tampa Red's "What Is It That Tastes Like Gravy?") and "Mama Let Me Lay It on You" (a rendition of Memphis Minnie and Kansas Joe's "Can I Do It for You?"), both of them definitive versions. Fuller's gift for making familiar songs his own pops again on his next session, from early February of 1937; backed by Dipper Boy Council and Bull City Red, he delivers renditions of "Mamie," "Untrue Blues" (a version of the "Crow Jane" theme) and "New Oh Red!," all of them revelatory and unforgettable."

Vol. 3

"The 22 sides which comprise the third volume in Document's Blind Boy Fuller retrospective were all culled from sessions cut in the latter half of 1937; the first session, from mid-July, was recorded under the auspices of the Decca label, a situation which left Fuller's longtime manager J.B. Long -- as well as ARC Records -- none too happy. As a result, at the bluesman's next session, Long insisted he re-record many of the titles earlier cut for Decca, resulting in alternate takes of "Bulldog Blues," "Throw Your Yas Yas Back in Jail" (a.k.a. "Put You Back in Jail") and "Steel Hearted Woman" (a.k.a. "Why Don't My Baby Write to Me"); for blues historians, the chance to compare and contrast the sessions will be irresistible, although more casual fans might find this particular release less engaging than the others in the series."

Vol. 4

"Beginning with the mid-December, 1937 session which kicks off this fourth volume in Document's retrospective, Blind Boy Fuller entered into a recording partnership with the legendary harpist Sonny Terry that continued for the remainder of Fuller's studio career. Terry's blistering harmonica and falsetto interjections lent an exciting new dynamic to Fuller's sound, as classic sides like "Pistol Snapper Blues," "Mean and No Good Woman" and "Georgia Ham Mama" amply prove, each musician pushing the other to new creative heights."

Vol. 5

"Volume five in Document's Blind Boy Fuller series is comprised primarily of two prolific sessions, the first recorded in Columbia, South Carolina on October 29, 1938 with harpist Sonny Terry and washboard player Bull City Red, the second a Memphis date from July 12, 1939 with Terry, Bull City Red (now going as Oh Red) and second guitarist Sonny Jones. The latter is perhaps the most impressive, yielding the signature song "I Want Some of Your Pie" as well as "You've Got Something There" (a rewrite of Buddy Moss' "Daddy Don't Care") and Fuller's immortal rendition of J.B. Long's "Step It Up and Go.""

Vol. 6

"The sixth and final volume in the series assembles the fruits of Blind Boy Fuller's final studio sessions, all dating to the first half of 1940. Despite failing health, Fuller is at his most incendiary on these sides -- "Shake It, Baby" is among his most galvanizing dance tunes, while "Little Woman You're So Sweet" stands as one of his finest originals. Most energetic, however, are the sanctified songs, including "No Stranger Now," "Jesus Is a Holy Man" and "Twelve Gates to the City" -- with his death less than a year away, Fuller burns with spiritual intensity, clearly yearning for some kind of redemption in his final months."

 

Yoko Ono discography [1970-2018]

 

Yoko Ono (born February 18, 1933 in Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese artist and peace activist, known for her work in avant-garde art, music and filmmaking and for her 1969–1980 marriage to John Lennon. There have been retrospectives of her work in New York City in 1989 and 2001, in Bielefeld, Germany, and the UK in 2008, and in Frankfurt, Krems, Austria, and Bilbao, Spain in 2013. She received a Golden Lion Award for lifetime achievement from the Venice Biennale in 2009 and the 2012 Oskar Kokoschka Prize, Austria's highest award for applied contemporary art.

She maintains John Lennon's legacy, among other things funding and maintaining Strawberry Fields in New York City, the Imagine Peace Tower in Iceland, and the John Lennon Museum in Saitama, Japan. She has also made significant philanthropic contributions to arts, peace, Philippine disaster relief, and AIDS and autism outreach programs. Mother to Kyoko Chan Cox and Sean Lennon, she also brought feminism to the forefront in her music. Her collaborative albums with Lennon Live Peace in Toronto 1969 and from 1972 Some Time in New York City reached No. 10 and No. 48 on the album charts respectively. (Double Fantasy from 1980, released three weeks before Lennon's death, reached No. 1.) Since 2003, eleven of her songs, mostly remixes of her older work, have hit No. 1 on the US dance chart.

1970- Yoko Ono-Plastic Ono Band

1971- Fly

1973- Approximately Infinite Universe

1973- Feeling The Space

1982- It's Alright (I See Rainbows)

1982- Season of Glass

1985- Starpeace

1992- Walking On Thin Ice

1995- Rising

1996- Rising Mixes

1997- A Story

2001- Blueprints For A Sunrise

2007- Open Your Box

2007- Yes, I'm A Witch

2009- Between My Head And The Sky

2013- Take Me to the Land of Hell

2016- Yes, I'm A Witch Too

2018- Warzone

Santana - The Birth Of Santana - The Complete Early Years (3 CD, 2003/FLAC)

 For more than five decades, the band Santana, led by guitar virtuoso Carlos Santana, have fused rock, blues, and Latin styles into a percussive, colorful and unique collage of sound. Inducted into the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame in 1998, Santana has released a total of 36 albums, collectively selling more than 50 million copies. And it all started right here...

The Birth Of Santana is an essential compilation and a true artifact of rock music, documenting the rise of one of its most beloved artists. The first two discs features recordings from 1969 sessions at Pacific Recording Studios in San Mateo, CA and are believed to be the original demo tapes that landed Santana their deal with Columbia Records. An early incarnation of Jingo, the Top 40 single from Santana s self-titled debut album appears here, as does the impressive Soul Sacrifice. The third disc is the legendary live recording at the Fillmore Theater in San Francisco. While the exact date of these recordings is unknown, this live performance also predates the group s self-titled debut album on Columbia. Carlos and the boys are indeed in fine form. Highlights include an outstanding rendition of Evil Ways, a song that went on o be a standard in the annals of rock history. Young, raw and on the brink of superstardom, this is Santana like you ve never heard them before!

 

Groundhogs ‎–United Artists Years (1972-1976) [3 CD, 2013/FLAC]

British blues band that backed John Lee Hooker in the mid-'60s, and went on to explor acid rock and prog during the '70s.

The United Artist Years 1972-1976 is the follow up to Thank Christ For The Groundhogs. That 3cd featured the first five albums while this set features three more studio albums, Hogwash, Black Diamond, Crosscut Saw and bonus live BBC concerts material. Switching labels from Liberty to United Artists, the band recorded Hogwash with drummer Clive Brooks, formerly of progressive/jazz-rockers Egg. The album surprisingly was a chart failure, but the next album with Brooks, Solid managed to reach #31. Because it was recorded for the short-lived WWA label it is not included here. This line-up also performs on both BBC concerts. Briefly disbanding in 1975, the next year found McPhee reforming the band with a new line-up. It’s surprising that Hogwash didn’t make more of an impact. McPhee continues experimenting with the changing prog-rock-like time signatures and sparing use of mellotron and keyboards.